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Wrong Side Of History

Jay Singleton

Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/24d. Total Eps: 8

No one thinks they’re the bad guy. No one wakes up and says, “Today I’ll be on the wrong side of history.” So here’s the question: if nobody thinks they’re the villain… what were they thinking? On Wrong Side Of History I try to help you understand history’s bad guys the way they understood themselves. Each season takes the perspective of a person or movement that ended up on the wrong side of history to learn what they feared, what they valued, and why their ideas made sense to them.

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Eugenics, Part 1: The Fear of Human Decline

Tuesday, September 1, 2026 • Duration 25:57

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Why did eugenics become mainstream among some of the most educated, scientifically minded and socially conscious people of the early twentieth century?

Before eugenics became inseparable in public memory from Nazi Germany, forced sterilisation and racial supremacy, British eugenicists believed modern civilisation had created a serious problem: medicine, sanitation, welfare and charity were saving lives while interrupting the natural selection that had shaped humanity.

In Part One, we try to understand the fear of human decline that gave the movement its urgency, from evolution and heredity to Victorian workhouses, “care and quarantine,” positive and negative eugenics, and the belief that humanity could consciously direct its own future.

This is the story of how a movement remembered for cruelty understood itself as compassionate, enlightened and even religious.

Follow Wrong Side of History so you don’t miss Part Two: The Promise of Human Betterment. September 15.

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Parenthood and Race Culture by Caleb Williams Saleeby:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42913/42913-h/42913-h.htm

The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin:
https://darwin-online.org.uk/converted/published/1874_Descent_F944/1874_Descent_F944.html

Essays in Eugenics by Francis Galton:

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